Scheduling Chat Journeys Follow

Schedule Chat Journeys to deliver them to your website visitors.

To schedule a Chat Journey, follow the steps:

• Go to Messenger in the sidebar, and select Chat Journeys.
• Click on the name of the Chat Journey that you want to schedule OR hover on its name and click on the Actions menu that appears then click on 'Settings'.
• Configure the scheduling options as per your requirement then save your changes and publish the Chat Journey.

In the settings you will see the following scheduling options:

• Start Time
• Stop Time
• Frequency
• Time Window
• Verify Agent or Team availability
• Chat Display Behavior
• Display Settings

Start Time: 

Set a time for your chat journey to start sending when the trigger condition matches. 

• Immediately: Choose this option to start sending chat journeys with immediate effect.
• Custom: Choose this option to set a custom date and time to start sending chat journeys.

Stop Time:

Set a time for your chat journey to stop sending. 

• Never: Choose this option if you want that journey should never stop sending.
• Custom: Choose this option if you want to set any custom date and time to stop sending the chat journey.

By default, Immediately and Never values are set for the above options, but if you select custom in start time then it takes today's date by default. And if you select custom in stop time then it sets +7 days by default but it can be changed.

Frequency: 

Choose how frequently should a journey be sent to a website visitor when trigger conditions are matched.

• Show only once: A chat journey will be sent to the visitor only one time when he matches the trigger conditions.
• Show every time the trigger is matched: A chat journey will be sent every time the conditions are matched. But it is limited to a minimum of once a day.

Time Window: 

Choose during what time should the journey be delivered to the visitor.

• Any time: When you select this option, the time can be random when the journey is delivered.
• During office hours: When you select this option, a journey will be sent to him during office hours only.
• Outside office hours: When you select this option, a journey will be sent to him outside office hours. Learn more about office hours

Verify Agent or Team availability:

Choose the option to trigger the chat journey based on the user or team's availability. How to Set User Availability.

• Run bot irrespective of user's availability: When you choose this option, chatbot messages will be sent irrespective of the user's availability
• Run only when the user is available to chat: When you choose this option, chatbot messages will be only sent when the user is available.
• Run only when the user is unavailable to chat: When you choose this option, chatbot messages will be only sent when the user's availability is set to Away.

Chat Display Behavior:

Choose the option when the chat journey should start for the visitor.

• On Exit Intent: This will trigger the chat journey when the visitor's mouse moves toward the top of the browser window.
• Time on Page: This will trigger the chat journey when the visitor spends a specified amount of time on a particular page.
• % Page Scroll: This will trigger the chat journey when the visitor scrolls more than the specified percentage.

Display Settings:

Once you have configured your scheduling options, you can further change the display option where you can set an avatar image that will be displayed with every message of Chat Journey, and the name of the chatbot which you want to display for the Chat Journey.

Once you're finished with the changes click on the Save button displayed in the top bar to save your settings to sync them with your journey.

Note: Scheduling options run as per the organization's timezone and not based on the customer or visitor's timezone. For example, the organization's timezone is EST (New York), and the customer's timezone is London (UK). In this case, when you schedule a message to send at 10 AM on Tuesday, it will send to your customer at 3 PM on Tuesday.